Around the world, the laws of war are being broken and the system for upholding them is not working. Yet that is no excuse for what Israel is doing in Gaza https://t.co/oHtxweheYh ...

The first laws of war were written with state-on-state wars in mind. However, the nature of most modern wars makes it hard for armies to honour the most basic law of war: that they differentiate between civilians and soldiers https://t.co/c6lhEBkJFR ...

Ever more civilians are being bombed, starved and raped by men with guns. These are the curses that the laws of war were invented to prevent, and that international courts are meant to punish and deter. But they are not having much success https://t.co/JWSzz8FGsU ...

Ever more civilians are being bombed, starved and raped by men with guns. These are the curses that the laws of war were invented to prevent, and that international courts are meant to punish and deter. But they are not having much success. https://t.co/1mKpr9v6lAIllustration: Jared Bartman/Getty Images ...